Rabbi Marc Gellman is senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, N.Y. He has written several books of modern midrashim for children, including Does God Have a Big Toe? Stories About Stories in the Bible, and is author of the post-9/11 book And God Cried Too: A Kid’s Book of Healing and Hope. With his Roman Catholic friend Monsignor […]

Regina Schwartz is director of the Institute for Religion and Global Violence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Sam Goldstein is a neuropsychologist on the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is the co-author of Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child and the forthcoming Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Help Your Child Become More Responsible, Confident and Resilient. […]

The Rev. Jerome W. Berryman, an author and Episcopal priest, is a senior fellow with the Center for the Theology of Childhood in Houston. He has developed an internationally used approach to religious education called “Godly Play,” inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, which teaches children through parables, silence, liturgical movement and sacred stories. It’s used internationally […]

A May 28, 2008, commentary by the Rev. Walter B. Fenton posted by the United Methodist Reporter. Fenton maintains that gay-rights advocates’ continuing call for more dialogue about ordination and related topics amounts to their saying “Let’s keep talking until we have convinced you that you are wrong,” and he says rank-and-file Methodists are satisfied with the […]

Read a May 9, 2006, Washington Post story about parents who shy away from organized religion but want their children to have some introduction to it.

Read a story from Christian Reflection, posted by Beliefnet.com, on the value of teaching children about faith directly from the Bible.

Read a Jan. 12, 2006, story from The New York Times about the “Indigo” generation.

Read a Jan. 17, 2009 Washington Times article about the incorporation of music into Sunday school programs in order to engage and reach out to the younger generations.